N.Y. Public Authorities Law § 355: Officers and employees; transfer, promotion and seniority

§ 355. Officers and employees; transfer, promotion and seniority. 1.

Officers and employees of state departments, agencies, or divisions may

be transferred to the authority and officers, agents and employees of

the authority may be transferred to state departments, agencies, or

divisions, without examination and without loss of any civil service

status or rights. No such transfer from the authority to any state

department, agency, or division may, however, be made except with the

approval of the head of the state department, agency, or division

involved and the director of the budget and in compliance with the rules

and regulations of the state civil service commission.

2. Promotions from positions in state departments and agencies to

positions in the authority, and vice versa, may be made from

interdepartmental promotion lists resulting from promotion examinations

in which employees of the authority and employees of the state are

eligible to participate.

3. In computing seniority for purposes of promotion or for purposes of

suspension or demotion upon the abolition of positions in the service of

the authority or in the service of the state, in the case of an employee

of the authority a period of prior employment in the service of the

state shall be counted in the same manner as though such period of

employment had been in the service of the authority, and in the case of

an employee of the state a period of prior employment in the service of

the authority shall be counted in the same manner as though such period

of employment had been in the service of the state. For the purposes of

the establishment and certification of preferred lists, employees

suspended from the authority shall be eligible for reinstatement in the

service of the state, and employees suspended from the service of the

state shall be eligible for reinstatement in the service of the

authority, in the same manner as though the authority were a department

of the state.